Isadora for Mac

5.0 stars

"great for non-technical"

June 17, 2008  |   By lisamoren

Version: Isadora 1.0

Pros

These tools are especially instrumental for artists and designers who want to build live interactive instruments, tools, performances and installations from audio and video files. It uses all drage and drop modules that can be connected in a variety of ways with no programming skills. As an Instructor of visual art and media I can work with non-technical art students and within a couple of hours we can build non-linear environments that would otherwise take a semester hammering away at developing programming skills. Simple sound/image relationship issues can be easily explored as well as more cultural inquiries: How does the experience of finding a photo of our grandfather on a CD differ from a finding him on a small piece of paper in a dusty attic box? New paradigms in interfaces can creatively address these issues. It is significant for the development of new paradigms that humanist voices contribute to the interactive forms being developed and the dialog generated around those forms. Furthermore, the non-technical artist can also create conceptual sculptural interfaces, because in conjunction with OSC hardware we can also explore sensors physical interactivity. The point for many new media students and artists, is that once you've spent a semester learning how to program in Max or C++, you've become so engrossed in the thinking that perpetuates those languages, you've completely forgotten why you wanted to build interfaces in the first place. Isadora can help the creative person keep their focus and ideas that are not driven by the tools.

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